com-
munities in their hinterlands occurred at weekly
rural, or tribal, markets. An 11th-century geogra-
pher (AL-BAKRI, 1965:212) cites the names of
such market places, often named after a tribe, an
important personage, or a day of the week, where...-Basra and its hinterland
sites identified during the archaeological survey
(TROIN, 1975:vol. 2, plan 5). If al-Basra had served
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to come.
I thank John Doebley and Melinda Zeder for
their comments on the manuscript and Marcia
Bakry for creating Fig. 1.
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